The phrase "as first described" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring back to an initial explanation or account of something that has been previously mentioned.
Example: "The process should be followed as first described in the original documentation."
Alternatives: "as initially outlined" or "as originally stated".
This manifest politicisation of his likely psychopathology seems to have facilitated a general collusion with his "delusion of sanity" (as first described by Dr Leslie Sohn, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst).
In general the welfare-to-work pacts were not as lucrative to the various contractors as first described.
The latter cases are consistent with ring-chromosome formation by centromere misdivision, as first described by McClintock in maize.
As first described in a 2015 paper, H. naledi was shown to share morphological traits in common with members of Australopithecus and Homo.
Measurement of cardiac output, as first described by the German physiologist Adolf E. Fick in 1870, makes possible an evaluation of respiratory exchange, i.e., the delivery of oxygen to the tissues.
As first described in a 2013 Harvard Business Review article, Vanderbilt's Otolaryngology program developed a 4-year program for residents consisting of Naval ROTC topics, public speaking training, a micro-MBA course, and a capstone leadership project.
To improve the reliability of the skin we orientated the cutaneous paddle in a transverse direction in the proximal third of the gracilis muscle, as first described by Yousif et al in 1993.
Botanists were astonished by the remarkable discovery of plants whose reproduction seemed to shatter the laws of inheritance of all living things, as first described by Gregor Mendel in the mid-1800s.
Era of Good Feelings, also called Era of Good Feeling, national mood of the United States from 1815 to 1825, as first described by the Boston Columbian Centinel on July 12 , 1817
Major problems associated with the use of a bone lid for osteoplastic surgery of the maxillary sinus, as first described by Lindorf, are the possibility of postoperative dislocation of the bony fragment into the sinus (floating bone), as well as inflammatory resorption or fracture of the very thin removed trap door fragment.
Mr Musk's notional budget is around $6 billion, less than a tenth of what the high-speed train is supposed to cost.Vac-trains, as first described in the 1910s by Robert Goddard (better known as a pioneer of rocketry), would send rolling stock (or hovering stock, perhaps) hurtling through hermetically sealed tubes from which the air has been evacuated.
